![]() By tying a note on each side of the needle, a little "play" was allowed, so that the needles were loose, appearing to be normally threaded. To perform this trick, Houdini would simply place a length of thread already threaded with needles and place them between his lips and gums before his mouth was examined. He begins by placing the needles and thread on his tongue and appears to swallow them. In this trick, Houdini swallows 50 to 100 needles, 20 yards of thread and brings them all up threaded, after his mouth and throat have been inspected by a committee. Houdini brought the "East Indian Needle Trick" from the obscurity of sideshows to popular culture in the early 1900s.
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